Used to be a very creative, exciting place: now the simple-minded bureaucrats have taken over. - Anonymous employee SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory Employee Review

Heaven help you if you don't work on scientific research: you'll be hounded by bureaucrats who don't like any idea that hasn't originated with them, don't know how to collaborate, have no interest in or appreciation of the lab's research, and aren't interested in two-way communication, only in giving orders. The new Director has his work cut out for him.